Saraf Mahnaz

“Mastery is the best goal because the rich can't buy it, the impatient can't rush it, the privileged can't inherit it, and nobody can steal it. You can only earn it through hard work. Mastery is the ultimate status.”
― Derek Sivers, How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion

“Limiting your options now will expand your opportunities in the long run because you can remain focused enough to master something.

Keeping your options open now will reduce your opportunities in the long run because you divide your attention and end up doing an average job on seven different things.

Are you falling into the pattern of always mastering one thing or always chasing the next thing?”
― James Clear

“If you try to forgive from a place of judgement, you will find it difficult. But coming from a place of compassion and acceptance makes forgiveness come effortlessly. If you choose to believe that everyone is doing the best that they can, given their unique circumstances – their childhood, their parents, their life experiences – and weaknesses, and that we all inevitably get things wrong and make mistakes, you quickly realize there is nothing to actively forgive. You move beyond it. Forgiveness happens naturally.”
― Rangan Chatterjee, Make Change That Lasts (B&W Illustrations): 9 Simple Ways to Break Free from the Habits That Hold You Back

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook